Prisoners' writings
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By: Meissner, Caits
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars-and shared beyond the walls–that draws on the unique insights of
- Author: Meissner, Caits
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 339
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1642595802
- Language: English
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By: Daedone, Nicole
Jailbirds in Flight: Everything You’ve Wanted to Know about Enlightenment in Prison but Were Afraid to Ask
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartNicole Daedone entered federal custody on charges tied to her life’s work-the teaching of Orgasmic Meditation-and found herself inside the “belly of the beast,” the Metropolitan Detention Center in Br
- Author: Daedone, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 196106443X
- Language: English
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By: Prewitt, Patty
Trying to Catch Lightning in a Jar: Letters from Prison
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Prewitt, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218682736
- Language: English
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Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe injustice, cruelty, and degradation that are so enmeshed within the US carceral system find their barbaric apogee in the practice of solitary confinement. Once judged by the US Supreme Court to b
- Author: Blackwell, Christopher William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745351271
- Language: English
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
$27.99HardcoverAdd to cartA powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow
Despite re
- Author: Deweaver, Emile Suotonye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1620977885
- Language: English
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By: Tisdale, Celes
When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartFollowing the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale’s wor… [more below]
- Author: Tisdale, Celes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018941
- Language: English
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Letters and Papers from Prison
$59.00PaperbackAdd to cartDespite Dietrich Bonhoeffers earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The ma
- Series: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works
- Author: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 614
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1506402747
- Language: English
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By: Cook, Justin
Injusticia Contagiosa: La verdadera historia de supervivencia y pérdida contra la corrupción, el desastre de la COVID-19 dentro de San Quenti
$35.99HardcoverAdd to cartUna visión secreta del traicionero viaje de un hombre arrojado de una vida exitosa en Silicon Valley a la oscura y asfixiante prisión de San Quentin, con asesinatos, asesinos en serie, ratas y COVID… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1088297668
- Language: Spanish
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By: Wilde, Oscar
de Profundis
$4.99PaperbackAdd to cartOscar Wilde’s emotionally raw manuscript details the inner turmoil surrounding his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas following his controversial arrest and conviction for gross indecency It’s an h
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271237
- Language: English
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Notes from a Dead House
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smug
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307949877
- Language: English
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Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama’s death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the pu… [more below]
- Author: Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505295
- Language: English
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By: Zinsser, Adam
Love Letters to Messiah: Modern Day Psalms
$15.99PaperbackAdd to cartFrom prison life to Christ life, I have found victory in Jesus.
During the last three years of my twenty-five years in prison, I copied the Bible by hand, word for word. Since leaving prison, led by t
- Author: Zinsser, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890415899
- Language: English












